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Just a few days before the climate negotiations #COP31 begin in Antalya, our message is clear: ✊🍉🕊️ “There can not be climate justice without peace, and there can be no lasting peace without a fossil fuel phase-out.” 🕊️🍉✊

Fossil fuels are woven into the architecture of modern warfare and shape the geopolitical dynamics in which armed conflict unfolds.

The @cij_icj's landmark climate ruling clarified that States have legal obligations to phase out fossil fuels, including by regulating corporate actors that contribute to climate change. These obligations have important implications for the fossil-fuel system that sustains militarization, and for the corporate actors that keep fossil fuels flowing in situations of conflict.

🤓 Read more in our analysis [link in bio].

#ClimateJustice #HumanRights #COP31 #PhaseOutFossilFuels #NoClimateJusticeWithoutPeace #NoPeaceWithoutFossilFuelsPhaseOut by @ciel_org

📣 As governments prepare to gather in Antalya, Türkiye (November 9–20), for #COP31, the stakes could hardly be higher.

🌍Climate impacts are accelerating, conflicts and economic instability are exposing the risks of fossil fuel dependence, and communities on the front lines are demanding climate justice.

After 30 years of climate talks, commitments are not enough. COP31 must confront the structural barriers to progress: consensus used to block action, weak accountability, and the outsized influence of fossil fuel interests.

COP31 must be more than another round of promises. Governments must accelerate a just and equitable transition away from fossil fuels, deliver climate finance and remedy, and ensure that the door is not opened to speculative technological fixes.

Importantly, there can be no climate justice without human rights. Governments must protect civic space, ensure meaningful participation for Indigenous Peoples and civil society, and deliver climate finance and remedy to communities facing harms they did little to cause.

The science is clear. The law is clear. What remains is the political choice.

🔗 Go to the link in bio to read our new analysis and learn what governments must deliver at this critical moment.

📲Follow us for updates and analysis from #COP31.

#FixTheUNFCCC #TheCOPWeNeed #ClimateAction #ClimateJustice by @ciel_org

Airborne nitrogen pollution may not be visible, but it’s choking our air. 🌫️ 🏭

Meet the Smog Demons — the atmospheric monsters born from industrial agriculture and fossil fuel reliance.

These monsters take on two forms: ammonia emitted from chemical fertilizers and livestock, and nitrogen oxides produced from fossil fuel combustion.

The Smog Demons haunt our air creating hazardous smog, fine particles, and acid rain, which pose severe risks to our health and degrade our ecosystems.👹 💨

Tackling nitrogen air pollution requires reducing chemical fertilizer dependence while phasing fossil fuels.

👉 Link in bio to learn more how nitrogen emissions degrade the air we breathe.
#NitrogenNightmare by @ciel_org

“The false promise of marine geoengineering is a dangerous distraction.”

Watch Mary Church from @ciel_org share how Marine Carbon Dioxide Removal technologies have not proven effective in the long-term removal and storage of CO2.

As we head to #COP31, we remind governments to not legitimize risky and speculative technologies that propose intervention at an unprecedented scale.

#HandsOffOurOceans #NoGeoengineering #NoDangerousDistractions by @ciel_org

Industrial farming relies on nitrogen fertilizer, but most doesn’t get taken up by plants. Instead, it leaches into soils and gets into our groundwater, eventually polluting our rivers, lakes, and oceans. 🌊 ⚠️

Enter Nitrate Nessie — the silent menace born from excess nitrogen.

Lurking beneath the surface, this aquatic monster fuels toxic algal blooms that suffocate marine life, and poisons drinking water for surrounding communities. 🦠🚰

We can’t keep letting chemical fertilizer runoff threaten our ecosystems and public health.

📖 Check the link in bio to learn more about nitrogen fertilizer pollution.

👉 And follow as we continue exposing the full roster of #NitrogenNightmare monsters haunting our food, health, and planet. by @ciel_org

Chemical fertilizers, made of fossil fuels, were supposed to solve hunger. But people are still going hungry, and this chemical monster has gotten out of control. 🧪🌾

Fertilizer Frankenstein has turned on its creators and is now responsible for harm to human health, climate, and the environment. As it blows past planetary boundaries, we must stop its path of destruction before it’s too late.

👉 Swipe through to see how Frankenstein’s monster of modern agriculture impacts our planet.

🎧 Link in bio to listen to our expert unpack the risks of depending on fossil-fueled fertilizers.

#NightrogenNightmare by @ciel_org

We’ve long been told that chemical nitrogen fertilizers feed the world. But the truth is they are wrecking our planet and trapping our food system in a #NitrogenNightmare. ⚠️🏭

Meet the Corporate Kraken:
A small group of global agribusiness giants holds immense leverage over our food supply. By dominating production and distribution, this corporate grip squeezes farmers’ margins, shapes agricultural policy, and blocks sustainable alternatives from taking root. 🛑

Slide through to uncover the truth, and follow for more as we reveal the full roster of monsters haunting our food, health, and the planet.

🔗 Read how the fertilizer industry is controlling our food system at the link in bio. by @ciel_org

⚖️ BREAKING: Brazil is taking major oil producer Shell to court over its contribution to climate change and the devastating impacts on frontline communities.

In October 2026, Brazilian federal prosecutors and Instituto Preservar filed a climate lawsuit against Shell’s Brazilian subsidiary, seeking compensation for damage associated with the devastating 2024 floods in Rio Grande do Sul.

The case connects three key elements:
🏭 Historical corporate emissions
🌡️ Climate attribution science
💰 The principle that those contributing to environmental harm should bear its costs: #MakePollutersPay.

This case is about more than one company or one disaster.

It raises fundamental questions about who bears the costs of the climate crisis and whether major emitters should contribute to cover the losses experienced by frontline communities, such as similar legal action against Shell in the UK over Typhoon Odette (Rai) in the Philippines.

💥✊ It’s high time to #MakePollutersPay!✊💥

#ClimateLitigation #ClimateJustice #AOLetsGo #PolluterPaysPrinciple #MakeBigPollutersPay by @ciel_org

Relive the highlights of our workshop on Advisory Opinions during New York Climate Week!

A space for dialogue and exchange to gather feedback and reflections on a document exploring how international courts’ advisory opinions on climate change can serve as strategic advocacy tools for Indigenous Peoples, strengthening their voices, rights, and demands for climate justice. 🌎✊🏽

Thank you to everyone who contributed to this conversation and to the collective effort to explore new pathways for advancing climate justice through the rights of Indigenous Peoples. by @ciel_org

💸 A government said no to developing an offshore oil and gas field. Now, a fossil fuel company wants at least $100 million for oil and gas that was never extracted.

➡️ Swipe to see how ISDS allows this to happen.

What is it? A little-known mechanism found in thousands of investment treaties that allows foreign companies to sue governments when climate action gets in the way of their expected profits. Every claim drains public money. And the fear of costly lawsuits alone can stop governments from enacting much-needed climate policies.

✊ The good news: governments created this system, so governments can end it. CIEL and partners worldwide are pushing them to do exactly that.

🔗 Go to the link in bio to see what we're asking for and how you can help.
And learn more at isdsfree.org

🔁 Share this with someone who wants their taxes to fund climate action, not polluters.

#ISDS #EndISDS #StopISDS #ClimateJustice by @ciel_org

Today the fertilizer industry is celebrating “Global Fertilizer Day”, but here’s the truth: chemical fertilizers are fossil fuels in disguise. 🔴

Chemical fertilizers tie our food system to fossil fuel extraction — driving climate emissions, health risks, and food price inflation. When fossil fuel prices rise, food prices rise too. ⚠️ 📈

From polluting water, soils and air to turning global market shocks into food price crises, relying on fossil-based fertilizers threatens the climate, public health, and our ability to feed ourselves.

To reclaim our food system, we must break our dependence on chemical fertilizers and build resilient, sustainable models rooted in agroecology and food sovereignty. 👨‍🌾 🌱

👉 Swipe through to see the real costs — and read more via the link in bio.

#GlobalFertilizerDay #FoodJustice by @ciel_org

Time to address the elephant in the room… quite literally! 🐘

Today, the @councilofeurope's Steering Committee on the Environment (CDENV) meets in Strasbourg to discuss how the Council is implementing its strategy on advancing human rights and the environment.

But there is one HUGE piece of the puzzle missing: finally starting negotiations on a binding treaty on the right to a healthy environment for the European continent.

A binding treaty will deliver on the essence of the Council’s strategy as well as the political agreement that its Heads of States reached back in 2023 in Reykjavik.

Dumbo is not alone. Over the past months, many key international human rights experts and mandate holders urged the Council’s Member States to begin negotiations of a standalone convention, including Commissioner for Human Rights, @petrabayr, @alain.berset and @forst.michel.

Most recently, just ahead of CDENV, UN Special Rapporteurs @srhealthyenvironment, Bethanie Carney Almroth, Elisa Morgera, and Pedro Arrojo urged once more the Council of Europe to expressly protect the right through a treaty: https://www.ohchr.org/sites/default/files/documents/issues/environment/srenvironment/activities/2026-10-12-letter-sr-environment-other-experts-coe-2.pdf

Our Campaign’s new mascot 🐘 does not want to wait three more years to protect the rights of 700 million people across Europe. Neither should Member States!

#HealthyEnvironmentForAll #TheTimeIsNow #ActOnTheEnvironment #CoE #CDENV by @ciel_org